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Suraj Chandrakar

Suraj Chandrakar

Head Of Engineering
Bengaluru

Summary

Technology leader with good coverage of handling people process and technology .

Strong beliefs

- Growing people to unlock hidden potential.

- Innovation via Technology && Creative thinking .

- Working on streamlining process.

- Effective collaboration to attain goals.


Pro technology and user-centric design thinking.


Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Engineering

Games24x7
Bengaluru
04.2021 - Current

Casual : https://ugames.in/ . Subsidiary of games24x7

RMG : https://www.games24x7.com/ .


  • Building and managing team for building Casual games and new RMG games .
  • Casual games : Heading Technology .Building team capable of executing world class games followed by building middle layer focusing on frontend ,backend and qa .Team size 30 .
  • Layers of technology stack Managed: Frontend ,Backend , QA ,DevOps and BI ,Creating self contained PODS which can ship out games at a rapid rate.
  • RMG games : Built front-end team which can do rapid prototyping and production team which can ship out RMG games. .
  • Collaboration Casual games : Working closely with CEO , VP of product , Head of Product ,Director of Design and Director of Art to create studio strategy for Casual games the innovation ARM of the company .
  • Collaboration RMG games : Working closely VP of product design ,CTO : Build team which can ship out new RMG games front end focus.
  • Seeding effective collaboration with AI && Data science teams with product-engineering teams.
  • Security and compliance : Working closely with information security head to apply security measures and compliance efforts.
  • Build studio pipeline with stakeholders .Defines KPI's and KRA's and traits for game development teams.
  • Prototyping team .For products to take a form establishing rapid prototyping team with Director of Design(Casual games) and VP of product design(RMG games) .

Team presence : Across geography , Bangalore ,Mumbai ,US and Ukraine and Spain.


Top keywords : {Unity ,Android ,IOS , Tool engineering} , AI and data science collaboration ,Backend team management ,QA automation engineering , Product design and prototyping , Dev-Ops ,Information Security compliance .


Top product keywords :

Casual games - Merge genre & Match genre & Solitaire.

RMG : Rummy-Circle , Carrom , Snake and ladders.

Casino : TeenPatti .



Sr. Engineering Manager

games24x7
Bengaluru
04.2020 - 04.2021
  • Developing high performance teams which can move fast and maintain quality by focusing on reusability .
  • Built teams that can work in different genres , Casual and RMG new games.
  • Seeded collaboration between engineering teams , Product teams , Design teams , Art teams by shape shifting studio structure .


Architect

games24x7
Bengaluru
11.2018 - 04.2020


  • Coordinated with engineering ,product design and art/techart teams for high performance operation which was interfaced by right tools and technology.
  • Worked on architecting systems for Rummy circle engine migration from Cocos2d-js to Unity .Rummy circle is 16 year old product which makes it the largest rummy operator in the world .
  • Set-up quality benchmarks by working closely with qa team for front-end ecosystem .


Engineering Lead

Hike
New Delhi
11.2016 - 10.2018
  • Lead team of 7 engineers to built Hike Camera which was inspired from Instagram .Team comprised of ,Hike 10 million DAU .

1) Computer graphics experts for writing the renderer for camera .

2) Computer vision experts for processing on camera frames and video processing .

required deep expertise in utilizing CPU and GPU computation in mobile phones .

3) Android and IOS engineers to make is available for focused platforms .

4) Collaboration with Art and design teams to setup pipeline for creating face-filters and camera effects.

5) Lead Prototyping teams for AR content.

Specialist Mobile Engineer

Hike
New Delhi
11.2012 - 11.2016
  • 1st Indian game to get featured in 100 countries.

Shiva the time bender : Game designer and Game programmer(80% code).

Game design : Narrative && Game mechanics.

Game development : Tool engineering && Gameplay programming

Game fuses cultures and historical timelines and adapts it to a runner game format.


  • 8 ball pool made in 2.5 mb's for Hike games platform .Made using open source game engine which allowed native rendering and allows game to be shipped as an OTA : {Source code and assets}.Gameplay ,Network programming , Physics .Team size 3 people .
  • CricketMatch : Fuses match genre and Cricket genre to create a game targeted for Indian market which was core strategy of hike messenger . Game development .
  • Bollywood ka Baap : Fused evergreen hangman mechanic with cultural phenomena of Bollywood to create a nostalgic experience which was hitting D7 as high has 38 % and D1 of 65 % .Prototype game design and development .


Software Engineer

Adobe
Noida
03.2011 - 11.2012
  • Division : CoreTech
  • Automation tool development for transcoding and thumbnailing web service and ACE color engine used in photoshop and other Adobe components.

Game Programmer

GameShastra
Hyderabad
07.2010 - 03.2011
  • Ported 3d racing game written in custom game engine .C++ and Opengl-Es .

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

National Institute of Technology
Raipur
07.2006 - 07.2010

Music listening , Reading and Travelling.

Fusing different mediums together .

Timeline

Head of Engineering

Games24x7
04.2021 - Current

Sr. Engineering Manager

games24x7
04.2020 - 04.2021

Architect

games24x7
11.2018 - 04.2020

Engineering Lead

Hike
11.2016 - 10.2018

Specialist Mobile Engineer

Hike
11.2012 - 11.2016

Software Engineer

Adobe
03.2011 - 11.2012

Game Programmer

GameShastra
07.2010 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Information Technology

National Institute of Technology
07.2006 - 07.2010
Suraj ChandrakarHead Of Engineering